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staggerleib |
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May 16, 2008 07:00:39am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: dont want this one to go unmentioned.... |
My main axe today is an Ibanez Lonestar. It looks sort of like a paul, but a bit larger, has a piezo pickup at the bridge, giving a really nice jazzy sound (also allowing for an acceptible acoustic play) and has a narrow strat neck.
Other guitars have come and gone, but the Ibanez has stayed with me for 25 years.
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Earl B. Powell |
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May 16, 2008 10:45:11am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: dont want this one to go unmentioned.... |
That Lonestar is a rare bird, very few made and equally as unusual. I bought one in '87 and used it for years until it became trade bait on a Les Paul. Every once in a while a Lonestar acoustic will show up on E-bay, but the semi solid body is a rarity.
I'm currently playing a Strat and a Tele, both first year Mexican offerings, and both modified with Seymour Duncan stacked pups. I've also a MSA pedal steel that I monkey around with, but find it very challenging.
...not surprising that more than a few players hang out here
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staggerleib |
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May 16, 2008 11:38:30am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: dont want this one to go unmentioned.... |
It is rare. I really never knew how rare until recently. I began looking it up on the web a couple of years ago and found it to be actually quite desired. Mine is the LE520 DV. It simply does whatever I want it to.
My old Epiphone, I'm told, has been completely reworked by a luthier in LA who's turned it into a midi trigger machine. At the time, it reminded me very much of the Ibanez Artist that Bobby was playing at the time.
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